* Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> [2004:03:08:08:18:07-0500] 
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> On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 at 11:10pm, Michael D Schleif wrote
> 
> > Amanda 2.4.4p1
> > Debian Linux
> > 
> > I finally took the plunge yesterday, and upgraded my last system to
> > kernel 2.6.3.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this is my amanda backup server, and under this kernel it
> > no longer communicates with /dev/nst0:
> > 
> >    # sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 offline
> >    mt: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/nst0'.
> 
> In addition to making sure st is available, doesn't 2.6 also have a device 
> mapper (like devfs, but not) available?  Did you compile that in, which 
> would have the result of putting /dev/nst0 somewhere else (like 
> /dev/tape/0 or something like that)?

Yes, that's what I'm guessing.  I had to add two (2) modules to get my
mouse working under X11.  So far, I haven't found reference to anything
similar for st . . .

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